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The Politics of Chaos in the Middle East (Columbia/Hurst)
Olivier Roy
Columbia University Press
Columbia University Press
In this book, Olivier Roy, Europe's leading scholar of political Islam, argues that the consequences of the "war on terror" have artificially conflated conflicts in the Middle East in such a way that they appear to be the expression of a widespread...
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A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind
Michael Axworthy
Basic Books
Basic Books
Iran is a land of contradictions. It is an Islamic republic, but one in which only 1.4 percent of the population attend Friday prayers. Iran’s religious culture encompasses the most censorious and dogmatic Shi’a Muslim clerics in the...
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Freedom at Midnight
Dominique Lapierre; Larry Collins
Vikas Pub
Vikas Pub
A famous major work on Gandhi, Jinnah, Nehru, Mount Batten and Partition.
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The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq
George Packer
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
As the death toll mounts in the Iraq War, Americans are agonizing over how the mess started and what to do now. George Packer, a staff writer at The New Yorker , joins the debate with his thoughtful book The Assassins' Gate . Packer describes...
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Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
Michael R. Gordon, Bernard E. Trainor
Vintage
Vintage
Written by the chief military correspondent of the New York Times and a prominent retired Marine general, this is the definitive account of the invasion of Iraq. A stunning work of investigative journalism, Cobra II describes in riveting detail...
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Palestinian Walks: Forays into a Vanishing Landscape
Raja Shehadeh
Scribner
Scribner
Raja Shehadeh is a passionate hill walker. He enjoys nothing more than heading out into the countryside that surrounds his home. But in recent years, his hikes have become less than bucolic and sometimes downright dangerous. That is because his home...
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Shah of Shahs
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Vintage
Vintage
In Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, one of the most infamous of the United States' client-dictators, who resolved to transform his country...
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Lipstick Jihad: A Memoir of Growing up Iranian in America and American in Iran
Azadeh Moaveni
PublicAffairs
PublicAffairs
As far back as she can remember, Azadeh Moaveni has felt at odds with her tangled identity as an Iranian-American. In suburban America, Azadeh lived in two worlds. At home, she was the daughter of the Iranian exile community, serving tea, clinging...
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